UCB Faculty Affiliates

Sameer B. Srivastava

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Haas School of Business, Sociology, Computational Culture Lab, Berkeley Culture Initiative, UC Berkeley
Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Ewald T. Grether Chair in Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Berkeley Culture Initiative, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Sameer B. Srivastava's research unpacks the complex interrelationships among the culture of social groups, the cognition of individuals within these groups, and the connections...

Philip B. Stark

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Statistics, UC Berkeley
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

Philip B. Stark's research centers on inference (inverse) problems and uncertainty quantification, especially confidence procedures tailored for specific goals. Applications include causal inference, the U.S. Census, climate modeling, cosmology, earthquake prediction and seismic hazard analysis, election auditing, endangered species, epidemiology, evaluating and improving teaching and educational technology, food web models, health effects of sodium, the geomagnetic field, geriatric hearing...

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell's research is focused on integrating original geological field observations with laboratory datasets in order to further understanding of global change through time. Projects in his research group focus on developing data from sequences of volcanic and sedimentary rocks in order to understand the past positions of the continents, the evolution of Earth's magnetic field, and large changes in climate.

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Rebecca Wexler

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Berkeley Law School, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Faculty Steering Committee Member; Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public; UC Berkeley

Rebecca Wexler teaches, researches, and writes on issues concerning data, technology, and criminal justice. Her work has focused on evidence law, criminal procedure, privacy, and intellectual property protections surrounding new data-driven criminal justice technologies.

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Xi Wu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Accounting, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Accounting, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Xi Wu is an assistant professor in the Accounting Group at Haas School of Business. Her work focuses on the intersection of securities regulation, corporate governance, valuation, and Fintech. Her current research centers on how regulations affect firms, how managers and creditors use information to address agency issues, and how to use newly available data to value firms and cryptocurrencies.

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Adam Yala

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Adam Yala's interests lie in the intersection of Machine Learning and Cancer Care. Adam's research focuses on designing modeling approaches that can capture the full complexity of biomedical data, are robust to data-generation biases, and offer safe-guards for clinical deployment.

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Bin Yu

BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Statistics, EECS, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
Professor and Second Chair, Departments of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator, Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley Weill Neurohub Investigator, UC Berkeley / UCSF/ UW

Bin Yu is engaged in interdisciplinary research with scientists from genomics, neuroscience, and medicine. In order to solve data problems in these domain areas, her group employs quantitative critical thinking and develops statistical and machine learning algorithms and theory.

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